Continuity: A Team Effort?
Is continuity a team effort, with the costume designer, for example, responsible for costume continuity, the standby props for action props and so on? Two dangers are inherent in this idea.
Firstly, it is confusing the planning of a production with the shooting. For example, during the planning the costume designer has noted that Scenes 1–4 had direct continuity, and decides that the old tramp appearing in each scene should wear a coat, tied at the waist with string, and a battered hat. When you come to shoot Scene 2, the first in shooting order, the director decides that the hat and coat should be left behind on a park bench. When Scenes 3 and 4 are therefore shot, later in the shooting schedule, the tramp must be ...
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